I used to say that, in the film of my life, Keanu would play the starring role. Most people don’t realise he’s mixed race. Keanu Reeves’s father is Hawaiian-Chinese—hence his name, Hawaiian for ‘cool breeze over the mountains’—but since he passes as white that’s how people think of him.A high-school friend says that ‘if you asked him where he came from or what his roots were, he was anything you wanted him to be’. I ...